The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-08-06
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.

Of the 9th Senatorial District:
At the organization of your OK
ecutive committee at Clarksdale |
on the 9th day of July, L was Sc
lected to prepare and publish an
address to you; a request which
| consider Is command, and | will
ingly obey.
Democrats--like the straight and |
narrow path traversed by the |
Christian from the city of destruc.
ton to the gates of the celestial
city, there is but one road to safe
ty, peace between the roads aud
prosperity TO all in our district,
and that is in the union, supremacy |
and success of the Democratic
party. There is no middle ground. |
Any deviation from that road,
however distasteful it may for q
time seem, and however inviting
the path which leads away, and
which may even appear to run by
its side, will lead at last To danger
to the one who follows it and end
in disaster to the party; a calam-
ity which oil good men would de-
plore. However it may be in
other communities of our common
country, in this district, as in ev-
cry district in the State, the Dem.
ocratic party is composed mainly
of white people; the Republican
party df one remains) of colored
people and when the time will
come. ii it ever does, when this
condition of things will be chang
ed, neither you nor l can tell. But
with that we have nothing now to
do. We must deal with the facts
as they are before us, and leave to
those who will come after us the
solution of the problems of their
day.
Within tho ranks OF the Demo.
cratic party is comprised nearly
all the wealth and property of the
district, and the intelligence and
courage derived from long line
of ancestry Of whom we may well
be proud, and who 1 know will
never be shamed by their descen.
dants. 10 the Democratic party
of the district belongs then OF
right the control OF its destlnles
and the shaping Of its political
policy and fortunes; for upon
these depend its social well.being
and the preservation of order, and
the enforcement of the laws SO
, absolutely necessary for the col.
ored people as we'll as white.
Until the present year the party
In the district has been without
organization, the election for SEN
, ator four years ago having been
, allowed to 60 by default. Prior
to that time, while after the wal
the counties of Coah0ma and Bol.
ivar constituted one district there
r was no organization of the party
: aud except for u short space OF
time during which Gen. Chalmers
held his seat In the Senate by
doubtful title, no man since the
war Calling himself a Democrat
! has represented these counties in
: that body. SO also this year, II
, you had seen fit to do so, you
might have permitted one of the
two colored Republicans who are
fighting for what as your choice
will be an honorable prize, but
what to either of them will be but
an empty honor, as well as a re.
proach to you, to bo elected with.
out opposition from you. But you
, did not so choose, but with una.
nimity rarely seen you have deter.
, mined upon your course, and have
placed before the country your
choice for this high and honorable
office. Of him, the Hon. j. W.
Outrer, it Is not necessary to
speak. His very nomination, made
as II was without opposition and
BY acclamation by your chosen
delegates, is a guarantee to those
of you who do not know him of
his peculiar fitness in every posi-.
ble way. Those who know him and
are familiar with his past legisla.
tive career, all agree that he has
shown himself emInently qualified
for Legislative honors and the re.
sponsible duties devolving upon
legislators. But If he had been
the nominee of the party after a
close and hotly contested conflict,
and by q close vote, which would
have left many sting behind it,
still the duty of every man in our
district who calls himself demo.
crat would haye been the same,
and that is to assist in asserting
the supremacy of the party BY
the election of its nominee. Ii
passion or prejudice engendered
by local factions and local ques.
tions deter any from his support,
they may be sure the day will come
when they will regret it. There
in now no organized opposition to
our nominee, but If there should
be before the election, he cannot
be defeated except by lukewarm.
ness on your part, or, what would
be worse than any other evil which
could befall us, the union of men
of character and standing in our
ranks, with colored people to Sc.
cure ends, which however impor-
tant or laudable they may seem to
them, are insignificant compared
with the great, the oyerpowering
necessity of keeping our party
ranks unbroken.
The success of no scheme, the
accomplishment of no object, the
election of no man to any Office
can ever justify any man who calls
himself a Democrat in the eyes of
party friends at home or abroad in
opposing the deliberate and ex.
pressed will of his party, by an ap-
neal to the cOlored race as an arbi-